1 Rainer Kuhlen Department of Computer and Information Science University of Konstanz, Germany Open Access for Science by Science Open Access European

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Rainer KuhlenDepartment of Computer and Information Science

University of Konstanz, Germany

Open Access for Science by Science

Open Access European Journal of Information Science

EIS

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Funding – Financing

Objectives – Conceptual design – Quality control

Organization – Implementation strategy – Sustainability

Open Access European Journal of Information Science EIS

Time schedule

Questions - Challenges

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Questions – Challenges

Is there a need for another information science journal?

Internationally leading

Journal of the American Society of Information Science (and Technology) - JASIS/T

Information Processing & Management - IPM

Journal of Documentation - JoD

All members of the Editorial Board are from the USA or Canada

since 2008 green/yellow OA (preprints)

11 out of 37 members of the Editorial Board are from EU countries (Kalervo Järvelin) (Editor in chief Fabio Crestani, Lugano) − OA: APC $1800

increasingly technologically oriented

16 out of 19 members of the Editorial Board are from EU countries (Editor in chief David Bawden, City University London

Journal of Library and Information Studies (Taiwan) OAInternational Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS) OA , mainly Asia, Africa

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Rank CountryNo. of articles Rank Country

No. of articles

1 USA 1631 11 Singapur 112

2 Great Britain 720 12 Belgium 97

3 Canada 271 13 Israel 91

4 People’s Republic of China 221 14 Japan 91

5 Spain 199 15 Denmark 87

6 Taiwan 170 16 Sweden 81

7 Finland 151 17 Germany 66

8 Australia 147 18 France 55

9 The Netherlands 147 19 Italy 51

10 South Korea 128 20 Switzerland 49

Publications in international information science journals

Source: Web of Science) (2000 – 2011) – Ranking according to countries (n=4395 articles); cf Schlögl Christian (2013): International visibility of European and in particular German-language publications in library and information science. In Hans-Christoph Hobohm (Hrsg.): Proceedings des 13. Internationalen Symposiums für Informationswissenschaft (ISI 2013), Glückstadt: Hülsbusch, 2013, 50-62.

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Is there a need for another European information science journal/publication platform?

Science is international – all information science scholars are welcome in EIS

Is there a typical European understanding of information and information science?

Is this specific information understanding based in Europe´s cultural diversity and its law tradition - for instance copyright vs. authors´ rights ?

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Is there a need for another European information science journal/publication platform?

European culture is deeply rooted in its language diversity

EIS´ primary publication language is English – in addition, the cultural and linguistic diversity will be recognized by encouraging to publish each article in the respective language of the author´s country

EIS focus are the pragmatic and social aspects of information – taking into account the variety of cognitive, cultural, economic, legal and ethical parameters

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Is there a need for a information science publication platform as an initiative from science itself?

There is evidence that open access will be the dominating publishing paradigm for the commercial publishing industry, too

But – so far no self-financing commercial publishing models have been developed by the publishing industry

The publishing industry still expect public funding of commercial open access publishing, not only for covering the publication/distribution costs but also for the profit forecasts (in the past about 25%)

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Is there a need for a information science publication platform as an initiative from science itself?

Science can make its products publicly available from its own resources

Editors

Editorial Board

Authors can translate their results into communicable documents

Quality control via diversified forms of assessment/ reviewing has always been done by scholars themselves (peer reviewing)

Distribution/making documents publicly available can by done by science itself and/or by support of intermediary institutions such as libraries

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Is there a future for commercial publishing in science?

open access (gratuit et libre) to information objects

multimedia presentation hypertextification, dossiers summaries, translations retrieval, text and data

mining tools innovative reviewing models personal und institutional

background information etc. etc.

Licence for applying using rights to new

products

Business models für value-added products

Commercial right to a

secondary exploitation of

information objects

legally protected by free licences (cf. CC-

BY)

modified and developed in collaborative working

environments

realized by authors in education and

science

Commons-based information markets

Simple publishing model

reversing OA green

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Objectives

EIS will foster progress in information science, in general but particularly in Europe, by applying international scientific standards for research and publishing

By following a multilingual approach, EIS will support the development of national information science associations and the establisment of a European network of information science organizations.

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EIS will be an open access journal (golden approach) – thus leaving all rights to the authors and allowing free access and unrestricted use for everyone

EIS will be open access for science by science – by taking the organization of publishing in its own hands

Objectives

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Maybe, there is no real need for a new information science journal

EIS will take advantage of value-adding possibilities of electronic networks besides publishing – such as

EIS – more than a journal

But is there still a need for journals with their main objective of making results of research publicly available

in form of text-based documents?

using semantic web technology communication – social betworking collaborative work user-generated content documents as pragmatic objects

EIS will be an information and communication platform

ICP

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Quality and performance characteristics

All contributions to EIS-ICP are in English per default.

In addition, all contributions, in particular articles, will be made publicly available in the corresponding native language of the respective authors – either by the EIS server and/or by a publishing media of the respective country

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EIS-ICP will be both

a peer-reviewed open access journal

a direct open access journal with delayed reviewing

EIS-ICP will be from the outset a scientific journal with quality requirements: traditional peer-reviewing, combined with open web reviewing

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a peer-reviewed open access journal

direct open access journal

according to the „publish first - filter later“ principle

all contributions will be made immediately publicly available

positively peer-reviewed articles will be marked by

the EIS quality label

positive reviews will be made publicly

available

will be made immediately publicly available after

reviewing

will be bundled in quarterly volumes

will be subject ofpublic commenting &

reviewing

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In addition to traditional quality measurements such as impact factor or citation analysis

EIS-ICP will provide a broad spectrum of metrics (web analytics/web controlling devices) such as pageviews click analysis download statistics ….

EIS-ICP will experiment with altmetrics services such as Mendeley CiteULike, Zotero ….

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EIS -ICP will provide a platform for curriculum development in information science.

EIS-ICP will have a special section für reviews and conference reports

Additional characteristics

EIS-ICP will provide a platform for excellent students´ theses

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EIS-ICP will provide (via hyperlinks) background information to authors and research/education institutions

Additional characteristics

EIS-ICP will secure long-term archiving

EIS-ICP articles will be indexed by citation data bases such as Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar

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EIS-ICP will also become an open access platform for full texts (monographs, anthologies, proceedings, etc.)

Additional characteristics – to be developed in a second phase

EIS-ICP will develop a data server for providing storage and access to whole data collections and/or to data which underly the articles published in EIS

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Additional characteristics – to be developed in the future

EIS-ICP will provide manifold messaging functions

Electronic mailing lists Job exchange Conferences, lectures, training course information Legal information (copyright, privacy, …) Information politics

EIS-ICP will provide manifold communication functions

EIS-ICP will provide a platform for collaborative text production

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Organization

At the beginning, the legal institution for EIS can be the Association for Information Science (Hochschulverband für Informationswissenschaft – HI - representing information science in Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland)

As soon as EIS has started is operational work, an adequate European-wide legal form needs to be searched for

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Organization

The management of EIS will be handled by OAseasOpen Access Science Editors and Authors Society

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Organization

An extended international EIS Editorial Board

A data base with the profiles of potential reviewers

Seven EIS Editors, one of them will be the Editor-in-chief

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Hosting

EIS Hosting will be distributedly organized – in collaboration with OAseas, ISN/Oldenburg, HTW Chur und IS-/KTI-Graz

Knowledge Technologies Institute at the Technical University of Graz

Institute for Informations Science and Information Management, University of Graz

Institute for Science Networking (ISN)

Open Access Science Editors and Authors Society - OAseas

University of Applied Sciences Chur – Department of Information Science

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Financing

German Research Association (DFG)

Austrian Science Fonds (FWF)

Financial Support for three years – starting end of 2013 (if approved)

Application for additional funding from the EU - 2014 - starting end of 2015 (if approved)

Everything depends on the successful application for grants

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Running costs per year - € 66.000

1. OAseas calculates € 500 Euro costs per article 2. Expected 30 articles per year ~ 15.000 Euro/year - hosting costs and

maintenance costs for open source publishing software3. € 12.000 Euro for further software development – developing value-

adding features.4. € 4.000 Marketing, advertisment, flyers development of the5. € 3.000 travel costs for the editors to European conferences6. €4.500 Euro (30 x 150 Euro) for language check7. € 1.200 Current business necessities8. €20.000 Assistant to the Editor9. € 5.000 Maintenance and further development of the website and the

document data base10. €1.300 Licences (software´data base, plagiarism control, provider fees,

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Covering the costs

The Institut of Information Science and Information Management of the University of Graz provides the position (50%) of an information engineer – this covers (8) and (9) of the costs (~€25.000)

The University of Graz provides € 10.000 per year in case the apülication for funds to the Austrian Science Fonds (FWF) is successful

Remaining costs of € 31.000 to be covered by

Information science related associations

Information and documentation centers, intermediaries such as libraries

Sponsoring, information related advertising

If necessary: APC for about €500

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to apply and maintain high quality standards and to achieve high metric values

to develop a promissing PR strategy to make EIS-ICP

attractive for information science organizations and authors

Challenges - problems

to make EIS an attractive platform for the information science community in order to achieve active participation (public commenting & reviewing)

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to secure long-term hosting and long-term archiving

to transform EIS-ICP from a primary publishing platform into a general information and communication platform

Challenges - problems

to apply information science methodology (knowledge representation, indexing, abstracting, flexible search, attractive user interface, …) to EIS-ICP

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Time schedule

Beginning of 2014 application for funding in Switzerland

Till mid 2013 applications for funding DFG, FWF)

Till mid 2013 establisment of the Editorial Board

Beginning of 2014 application for funding in the EU

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Time schedule

till the end of 2013 a first EIS-ICP prototype

till the end of 2013 EIS-ICP concept and organizational structure made public

mid 2014 first EIS-ICP article to be published

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Thank you for your

attention

Towards a commons-based copyright– IFLA 08/201034

Wissensökologie und Wissensökonomie müssen kein Widerspruch sein - ODOK 2012 – FH Wels 12.9.2012

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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1 Rainer Kuhlen Department of Computer and Information Science University of Konstanz, Germany Open Access for Science by Science Open Access European